pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

tbf you could argue that Pitchfork would not have the cachet they have if they hadn't come up along with LCD Soundsystem, so it kind of makes sense in terms of acknowledging a debt

not that that makes me want to read it

― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Monday, March 28, 2011 11:59 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

wait what

Was that confusing or do you just disagree?

i like reading james murphy on about his own (or any) music, and this at least collects a lot of good quotes

― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, March 28, 2011 4:31 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

all from the guardian

i found it sort of interesting, the couple of entries i power-skimmed, mainly the idea that circa 2001 the idea of indie people liking dance or trying to make dance music was seen as unusual in the US

well if pitchfork's readers don't get a posthumous thirty-million-word exegesis on some guy's five-year career how are they going to know they were paying attention to the right things

like, it's like one of those beatles coffee table books

except about lcd soundsystem

and unreadable

(it's not a line of argument I'm particularly invested in defending but kind of how I view Pitchfork and its rise to critical prominence; a large part of it was that they were in the right place at the right time covering the right people, some of whom were established artists going in odd directions a la Radiohead, while others were in niche scenes about to gain national exposure a la LCD)

(also ppl wanted to know what insane thing Brent DiC was going to write next)

what is this Chillwave Wonder Shozen they just started playing?

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/sunset-television/1613-sunset-television/2557-night-runner-classic-swedish-movie-and-cops-for-kids/

Was that confusing or do you just disagree?

― 'lol u stuck with me now watch this ass expand, joeks on u' (DJP), Monday, March 28, 2011 12:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

bit of both i guess

how lucky we are to live in this time
the first moment in human history when we are
in fact
listening to lcd soundsystem

http://www.isepp.org/Media/Speaker%20Images/94-95%20Images/Carl%20Sagan.jpg

bit of both i guess

well like I said, I'm not super-invested in the argument *shrug*

i'll take "things deej never says" for $500

:D

i'll take "things whiney says when deej hasn't even been posting on the thread" for $800

still can't get over the john cage bit...I don't think p4k's editors read this either

whoa ship i think you just jumped to the second round

and the shark

yeah, i jumped TO the shark. good one.

No results found for "man standing on shark".

that just seems dangerous

Closest match:

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1491/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1491R-1129460.jpg

The three-chord refrain that closes "No Fly List" gets Froberg whelping at his sandpapery best

guyssss use a fuckin dictionary

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0c97819ed9434911671e389c5fe6103c/89597.jpg

whelp (hwlp, wlp)
n.
1. A young offspring of a mammal, such as a dog or wolf.
2.
a. A child; a youth.
b. An impudent young fellow.
3.
a. A tooth of a sprocket wheel.
b. Nautical Any of the ridges on the barrel of a windlass or capstan.
v. whelped, whelp·ing, whelps
v.intr.
To give birth to whelps or a whelp.
v.tr.
To give birth to (whelps or a whelp).

loooooooooool

okay lol at that one

whelpless whelpless whelpless wheeeeeeelpless

hahaha

It whelped a camel's ass

another acoustic guitar-based record, another Fahey reference...

Frontman Josh T. Pearson disappeared for several years, then emerged in Germany playing intimate, barely scripted shows that blended American Primitive guitar playing (think John Fahey) with quasi-Biblical lyrics (think Wovenhand).

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15222-last-of-the-country-gentlemen

i think that's for people who like john fahey but don't know what 'american primitive' means. there are actually people out there who read pitchfork and don't really care about learning genre names and stuff.

is there a pitchfork for jaded know-it-alls that contains zero references to other artists?

Have never seen a Josh solo show that was at all like John Fahey. In fact seeing four of his early solo shows within a week or two was responsible for giving me minor tinnitus.

Anybody else been getting lots of 503 errors lately when clicking various links around Pitchfork? Thought maybe it was just my computer at home being weird, but happening again today when I check at work.

Yeah, I'll get a 503, then hit refresh and it'll be okay.

Yeah, same here, just weird.

Hanna is a film about a "badass survivalist girl"; the Chemical Brothers have never seemed particularly badass, but it's fair to count them as survivalist, both because last year's Further was their best record in ages and they're the only act from the late-90s electronica boom making music anyone would want to listen to.

I hate this kind of talk!! I mean first of all Underworld came out with a pretty damn good album in 2010 and secondly this very site panned their last album pretty heavily so you're just throwing a bunch of acts under the bus for no reason.

Hanna doesn't represent anything more than a slight change-up from a group used to throwing fastballs.

STRIKE THREE!!

lol

I haven't seen Hanna; it appears to be a thriller set in Eastern Europe with a young female protagonist-- gifted in the art of action-- who eludes a ruthless intelligence operative. Digitized techno mysticism has been a go-to soundtrack of choice for this genre ever since The Bourne Identity rubber-stamped Moby's "Extreme Ways" as the perfect mix of heady paranoia, Euro style, and kicking things.

Oh yeah, THAT'S when all the euro-thrillers got soundtracks. 2002!

Man guess I imagined my soundtrack to The Saint all those years ago.

techno soundtracks, I mean.

HOW SOON WE FORGET

http://www.thesoundtracktoyourlife.co.uk/image.php?productid=5886

haha xpost!

Hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUGeI0kqrM

quite the xpost there!

I'm quite glad to know I wasn't the only person to immediately think THE SAINT SOUNDTRACK, YOU JACKASS when reading that paragraph

not that this Val Kilmer vehicle invented the idea of techno music scoring euro-thrillers either, just sayin

Yeah, I'm still lolling that someone else pulled that one out as a reference point.

yeah that was strike two. somehow, i completely missed it

it all goes back to MORTAL KOMBAT

Featured songs

* Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.1 • "Halcyon + On + On" (shortened version) • used as the film's theme
* Hackers (1995) Soundtrack Vol.2 • "Speed Freak [Moby Remix]"
* Mortal Kombat (1995) • "Halcyon + On + On"
* Johnny Mnemonic (1995) • "Sad But True"
* Event Horizon (1997)
* The Saint (1997) • "The Saint Theme"
* A Life Less Ordinary (1997) • "The Box" and "Dŵr Budr"
* Spawn (1997) • "Satan" (with Kirk Hammett)
* π (1998) • "P.E.T.R.O.L"
* Human Traffic (1999) • "Belfast" •
* The Beach (2000) • "Beached"